The removal of Kenya’s deputy president Rigathi Gachagua is part of a long history, dating back to independence, of fallouts between the president and his deputy. The difference this time around is ...

Choral music – patriotic choral music in particular – is a significant genre in Kenya’s political history. Patriotic music is defined by how it engages citizen to praise and express sentiments of ...

At the heart of the city stands one of Kenya’s most iconic buildings, but one that few bother to visit. To some, the Kenya National Archives and Documentation Service is more of a landmark, meeting ...

Between 1952 and 1963, Kenya experienced one of the most violent chapters in its modern history. The Mau Mau uprising, rooted in land dispossession and political repression under British colonial rule ...

AFA copy 39088020440905 is a gift from Janet Stanley. "Since independence in 1963, Kenya has survived nearly five decades as a functioning nation-state, with regular elections, its borders intact and ...

Coral reefs, like tree rings, are natural archives of climate change. But oceanic corals also provide a faithful account of how people make use of land through history, says Robert B. Dunbar of ...